Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-28
Roscoe conkling for Peace.

We once spoke Of Mr.. CoSKLrNG
as "that great master Of rhetoric" y; but
he Is not only the most forcible. ele-
giant. and eloquent speaker in the Re-
publican party, but is a man of varied
and profound talents and attainments.
He is statesman, or capable of being
one now that the prejudices of the war
have left his mind free to fol-
low the natural channel marked
out for it by his abilities. We
should do him injustice if we did not
add that as long ago as 1877 he rose
above party, and in an argument, full,
round, complete, and absolutely I'M
answerable, satisfied the United States
Senate that the Republican President
OF that body had no right to count the
votes for President and Vice President
of the United States. He secured the
passage OF the electoral-commission
bill. We say he secured its passage
because we are confident that his oppo-
sition would have defeated it. But
placed upon the Electoral Commission
he went with his party, and failed to
show himself as great as he was able.
He went back to his party, and was one
of the eight members of the Electoral
Commission who resolved to continue
the Office of President OF the United
States in the possession Of the Republic
can party.
We have always admired Mr.. CoNK-
LING. Even when he was engaged in
the unholy partisan work of ridiculing
the South, or trying to arouse preju-
dices against her, we could not bat adj
mire his well-rounded periods. And
what a sharp tongue he has, as when
he styled CARL SEIZURE (who, by the
way, was not afraid of an encounter of
wits even with Mr.. CoNKLISG) ga pro-
fessional foreigner or when he i'm
proved upon BURKE's famous reference
to the browsing cattle as compared with
the noisy insects, and quoted
"The shadows murmur. but tho deeps are
dumb"
Well, at this moment, when the
SHERMANs and the TUrrLEs and the
FAIgcHILDs and the rest of the gang of
malignants are engaged in the unholy
work of attempting to band the sol
der element of the North against the
South, Mr.. CoN1LING steps toward, and,
faithful to the teachings of his firm
and steadfast friend General GRANT as
he lay Oh his death-bed at Mt. McGre-
COR, writes to Farlagut Post, G.. A. r.,
who are making great preparations for
a reunion OF the Blue and the Gray at
Evansville, Ind, in September-as fol-
lows:
NEW York, August %, 1887.
Gentlemen,-Iti is an honor highly
valued to be invited as one of the guests
of Farragut Post of the g. A. X. at
the approaching reunion OF surviving
soldiers who fought on one side and on
the other in the late war.
] beg you to receive my thanks and
to believe my regret sincere at being
unable to take part in observances of
SO much interest and significance. My
earnest sympathy and hope go to and
90 with every movement and idea
having for its real purpose to weld to-
gether all sections and all classes and
to make our country throughout all its
borders united, prosperous, and great.
Could wish or act of mine decide,
every community and neighborhood in
all the land should be crowned with
the fulness of peace and progress as
much at the South as at the East, the
West, or the North.
The brave men who faced each other
in battle can be the best teachers and
the most genuine actors of this creed.
Glad that the reunion is to occur. and,
never forgetful OF hospitality and kind
ness received in the past from the
soldiers and the people OF Indiana, l
trust the occasion will be an event OF
enjoyment, pride, and success. Cor
daily your obedient servant,
Roscoe CoNKLISd.
II the Republicans were wise Mir.
CoSKLIxG would next year be their
nominee for President of the United
States ON platform consisting Of that
letter. He is the one man in the land
who could carry New York as against
GROVER CLEvELASD-that is, If there
is even one such man.
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